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HR Takes Charge of Contingent Staffing Workforce March, 2002 It's critical to have a clear concept of how temps are hired, managed, and released. A company that uses contingent workers but doesn't track them can find itself on shaky legal, financial, and security ground.
Labor Pains CIO Insight October 1, 2003 Corporate America is beginning to experience a sea of change in its attitude toward information technology... The rise of computing as a utility, which like electricity or water can be paid for on an on demand basis, will shift more corporate IT jobs to services companies, which themselves are threatening to send jobs overseas.
A New Way to Manage Vendors CIO Magazine February 1, 2005 The VMO now gets involved at the start of negotiations and helps IT managers make informed decisions on which vendor can offer the best deal and the best service for a particular project. With a dedicated VMO within the IT department, a CIO can more easily manage relationships with multiple vendors, keep track of metrics and vendor performance, and negotiate discounts on IT services and products.
Valuation of the Temporary Employment Industry Corporate Growth Report Weekly Feb 26, 1996 As businesses continue to downsize to core competency, outsourcing or the use of temporary staff is on the rise and proving to be the perfect “remedy” for investors concerned about the US. economy.
Supply Management in the Public Sector: Improvements Required Aberdeen Group The U.S. federal, state, and local governments constitute the single largest buying entity in the world. However, the government lags private sector firms in employing strategies and technology to streamline procurement operations and better control supply costs and performance. In fact, continued reports from the General Accounting Office (GAO) suggest that the federal government alone is wasting billions of tax dollars owing to underleveraged spend and underperforming procurement and supply management operations.
VMS: Friend or Foe? As their contingent workforces grow, so does the use of vendor management systems within the corporate enterprise. Attitudes of corporate purchasing and procurement managers toward VMS are becoming more positive every day, and their desire for these systems and solutions is not fading. Times are changing, and our research shows that more and more very large companies intend to take proactive measures toward buying technology to optimize their temporary labor spending.
VMS in Healthcare Management of supplemental staff via automated procurement software - a vendor management system - is a trend emerging in the healthcare industry. Despite healthcare being more reluctant than some industries to jump into e-procurement, staffing companies and software sellers agree that more of the dollars spent on contingent labor used in hospitals and other facilities is likely to flow through a VMS.
Staffing “2020” Seeing through the Past and into the Future If you want your business to be competitive in 2020, you must first work to make sure it is competitive in 2007 and 2008! No amount of long-term planning can resurrect a dead business.